I’m using Google’s Golang SDK for Firestore. The experience is excellent and I’m quickly becoming a fan of Firestore. However, as a Golang Firestore developer, I’m feeling less loved and some of the concepts in the database were causing me a conundrum.

I’m still not entirely certain that I have Timestamps nailed but… I learned an important lesson on the auto-creation of Timestamps in documents and how to retain these values.